(Updated Thursday with additional information. For new version of AB 484, go here). In order to avoid serving two masters – the old state academic standards and the new multi-state Common Core ...

PARCC has made its sample test questions available for computer-based practice. Sample items for the upcoming assessments of Common Core State Standards have been released previously for testing on ...

Students, parents, and teachers who are anxious or merely curious about the coming online assessments matched to the Common Core State Standards will now have the opportunity to go through a test run ...

Common Core test prep: The new standards are meant to be less susceptible to test-prep techniques, but that’s not stopping many Louisiana schools from trying — not so much to improve student ...

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia are now using the same math and English standards, but the tests they use to determine how well students have mastered them still vary significantly. One ...

Four years and over $360 million later, new Common Core tests are here. What’s new and what isn’t New Common Core tests are debuting on time this spring, but after years of bruising attacks from both ...